Romans 16.18 states that “For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple”
The good book makes it clear that human beings are spiritual entities living in a physical body. Therefore, what you are today and will be in future is dependent on the condition of your spirit. Any change we desire in the physical has to originate in our spirits before it can manifest in the physical. Great scientific discoveries originated from the spirits of the inventors. That is not to say that the mind did not play a role; the mind always has a relation with the spirit.
Since the human spirit is the primary source of invention or creativity or destruction, it matters so much how we condition our spirits. Some people have grown up with the mindset that nothing good can come from them. As growing children, their parents or loved ones may have kept on speaking demoralising statements to them and as a result they have come to accept for a fact that they are no good for society. And because these children grow up with a ‘good for nothing’ mindset, they actually experience this in their lives- because their spirits have been poisoned. The law of repetition is so powerful and operates all the time. If a child is abused several times by a loved one and or parents, this child grows up with low self esteem and the gift of God in him or her for the world becomes dormant.
There are also people who think that a particular chronic disease in their lives was put there by God and therefore, they can do nothing about it. This mindset emanates from a poisoned spirit. God never punishes His children with disease(s) otherwise Jesus wouldn’t have come and healed all diseases He came across (Acts 10:38). Jesus never attributed the presence of any disease condition to the will of God. As children of God, we have the power to heal and cast out diseases.
Some people also have the mindset that, a child of God should not be wealthy and they liken their selves to poor Lazarus in the bible who went to heaven. This is another kind of poisoning of the human spirit. Lazarus could have been rich and still entered heaven! When a child of God is rich, God is happy about it because the propagation of the gospel can be accelerated. Secondly, other children of God are blessed through the riches of some.
Several other examples of poisoning of the human spirit exist, however, the few examples given above are critical in explaining the point. In conclusion, any strongly held mindset that is not consistent with the revealed word of God is as a result of a poisoned spirit.
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